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...John Masefield, Britain's 69-year-old poet laureate, life was getting to be the title of an old Masefield novel, Odtaa.* He had scarcely given the world his prothalamion, On the Coming Marriage (TIME, Nov. 10), before he upped with an epithalamium, 20 Lines on the Occasion of the Wedding . . . Concluding quatrain...
George VI and Elizabeth, home from Africa (see FOREIGN NEWS), had a new tribute for their scrapbook, painstakingly pieced together by 68-year-old Poet Laureate John Masefield (whose services to the Crown earn him roughly $515 a year). He cheerfully reported the world's recognition...
Like many another man who never went to college (and like some who did), England's Poet Laureate John Masefield thinks a university is a wonderful place. Last week Harvard, which once gave Masefield an honorary degree, reprinted in its Alumni Bulletin the remarks which
...Masefield made in receiving an honorary degree from England's University of Sheffield. John Masefield, often a doctor but never a freshman, still thinks universities are wonderful. Excerpts...
...decisions to be made (should they take the crown along?-they decided against it). But at long last everything was packed and ready. Aunts, uncles and cousins gathered to kiss the travelers goodbye and neighbors lined the streets to wave them away. An elderly well-wisher (Poet Laureate John Masefield) had even written a little verse...